Happy national birthday, to my American friends. I apologize for being late a day but yesterday I was busy baking my chest to an alarming shade of crimson, on the beach with a gaggle of children. Oh, the joys of being a redhead...freckles and third degree sunburn...
Many thanks to missred who helpfully identified my mystery tree. I am pleased to discover that the Mimosa tree can be hardy into the frigid zone 5 of my homeland which auspiciously, is just hostile enough to pare back it's pervasive growth habit. Now all I have to do is find one...and then a place to plant it...
I see you've all kept yourselves occupied while I was busy. Just can't stay out of trouble, eh? This should be interesting. Sarah Palin is definitely a polarizing figure but after a healthy dose of The Great UniterTM, maybe a little polarization would be good for American politics, for a change...
I don't have links to share today. You should be out hovering around the barbecue anyway. I'm going to go dig up the yard some more...there are still a couple of patches of that pesky grass that could be replaced with stone or garden. The neighbors complain that I make them look bad.
Happy 5th of July. Normal blogging will resume tomorrow. See you then.
"I was busy baking my chest to an alarming shade of crimson,"
Well, at least your backside looks nice and even!
Posted by: proof | July 05, 2009 at 10:28 AM
You're a redhead???
(I'll take Mikey's word on that) :-)
btw, for your readers in the maritimes: What does the sun look like?
Posted by: Texas Canuck | July 05, 2009 at 06:13 PM
So you say you were in Washington lately, eh? Over at Last of The Few website (Theo Spark) they have an interesting piece.
"Shots from the DC Tea Party, notice Wonder Woman seems to have showed up."
Coincidence???
Posted by: Texas Canuck | July 05, 2009 at 06:31 PM
TC, I can indeed vouch that our Wonder Woman is an impostor... without the black dye, she'd look more like Rogue than Wonder Woman. ;)
Posted by: mikey | July 06, 2009 at 08:57 AM